Pros

Pro

Free and cross-platform

Pro

Privacy focused

Bleep uses end-to-end encryption to keep communications private and leaves no metadata on a central server so no-one even knows the communication took place.

Pro

Web and mobile (iOS, Android) versions available

Pro

Supports text, voice, video

Integrates with Jitsi for multi-party video chats

Pro

Uses Matrix, the open communications protocol

Pro

Very good and simple interface

Riot has a very simple interface, adding the ability for more unexperienced PC-Users to use it.

Pro

Widgets support

Want to watch that flick at YouTube and discuss it at the same time? Have Grafana graphs stacked above your DevOps team chat? Collaboratively edit Google Docs and chat over without switching applications? This is possible with Riot.

Pro

Bridges to other networks

You're not confined within Riot's or even Matrix garden, and you don't have to make users of other networks switch to Matrix.

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Cons

Con

Privacy claims can't be validated

Since Bleep is not open source, there is no way to validate product's privacy claims.

Con

Alpha state

Bleep is in early stages of development meaning there can be issues and it may be unstable.

Con

Still in active yet early development

There is clearly a User Experience issue esp. in web version which the developers are aware of and are working hard to improve. They've got the concept concrete, so UX won't be an issue in no time. Most often used parts are functional, but some are yet not.The success of riot depends on how fast the development is, or it'll get outdated too quickly as developers of Signal and Telegram have predicted.

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